Hi,
Does this look like a cracked frame to you guys or just a crack in the paint?
Thoughts please.
Thanks,
RM
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Does this look like a cracked frame to you?
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Doesn't look to good to me!
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Hmmm. Not having a good day. Can I not link to Picassa?
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I think it's definitely cracked
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Can you see the image? I can't!
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I had to download in a new tab...looks to be in a place where you'd 'expect' a crack too.
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Ah, I see. Thanks for the feedback. Gutted... 2nd hand frame
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cant see a pic
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ooh..take the paint back to be sure. You never know
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Right click and open in new tab I think is the best way. Sorry. Not sure why it's not linking
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ouch.
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bin it
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get it fixed and keep it for commuting/pootling/niche/retro/touring/owt else boring......
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As someone else has said scratch/remove the paint off in the area for a better look. It doesn't look good but might just be paint.
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It's a DH frame
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It has just been resprayed...
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Was a DH frame...
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What frame is it?
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If the paint is fresh it's potentially more likely to be just paint for me (unless the seller did it of course), different type of pain etc. Take the paint off and look underneath.
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Crack
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Oh yes. Thats cracked.
Paint doesn't crack for no reason.
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get some of this
`tis what we use on vessels and pipeworkDrill a hole either end and get a local engineering works to weld. Preferably a sheet metal works used to working with thin materials.
Still a risk that it will crack again tho
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I wouldn't be so sure its cracked. Too many armchair critics and its very hard to tell from that picture. If i were you I would carefully remove the paint around the weld and check if its just the way the paint has dried.
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What's the best way to remove the paint guys?
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Either with a screw driver/sharp blade if its a powdercoat (which it looks to be) which will likely flake off easily (especially round a weld).
If this doesnt work dab a little bit of nitromors on the area.
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Where is the crack George? Can't work it out. Give Orange a call before you start messing about with the paint, they might prefer to inspect and sort it themselves given that it's a prototype, they will likely be interest in where/how it's failed.
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Thanks Joe. I live in hope...
Downtube Rocky. Gusset that joins to headtube...
Have emailed them and not gonna touch it till I hear back...
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If it helps,I had a Diamondback WCF4.0 back in 1997, it developed a crack in the paint on the down tube, all the way around the tube. I rode it for about 18 months before I realised that it was a crack in the bond between the chromoloy lugs and the carbon fibre tubes. A rock hit the down tube and knocked a lump of filler out and I didn't ride it again, but it worked no problems with effectively no down tube at all.
In short, it'll be fine!
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As someone else has said scratch/remove the paint off in the area for a better look. It doesn't look good but might just be paint.
While I'd like to be optimistic....given the location (next to a weld, HAZ etc) I'd put my house on it being a crack. Hell it IS a crack.
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WHAT FRAME IS IT???
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It's an Orange 225 prototype DH frame, as raced by Ben Cathro last year.
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classic gusset+big gobby weld = crack(possibly)
Gussets have a tendency of moving any stress to another area. If this is badly designed/placed etc then failure will occur. Some people think they are for strengthening an area but if badly executed then all they due is move the problem. Alloy is especially prone to thinning at the edge of a weld and on a thin tube it can create problems.
Have you been on a DH forum and asked other owners of this brand/model?Posted 1 year ago # -
it's a crack.
it's cracked.
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